ANTONYMS FOR make

Related forms

mak·a·ble, adjective

Synonym study

1. Make,construct,manufacture mean to produce, to put into definite form, or to put parts together to make a whole. Make is the general term: Bees make wax.Construct, more formal, means to put parts together, usually according to a plan or design: to construct a building.Manufacture usually refers to producing something from material that requires conversion from one state or condition to another, now almost entirely by means of machinery in a relatively complex process: to manufacture automobiles by the assembly of different parts. The term is also often used contemptuously of unimaginative or hackneyed works of art with the implication that the work was produced mechanically, and is used abstractly with the idea of denying genuineness: to manufacture an excuse.